Sound effects

Add fun, excitement, and humor to your videos, with free sound effects. Engage your audience and set any mood you like, with audio effects.

Add sound effects

Royalty-free sound effects

Integrated with the video editor

Emphasize your message

Set the mood & tone

Add exciting sound effects to any video

Increase viewer engagement

Make your videos stand out with sound effects. The right sound effects can add creativity and entertainment to your content, increase audience engagement, and showcase your brand, making it distinguishable and memorable.

Captivate your audience

Easily add free sound effects directly from the video editor, from city, nature, games, and more. Or expand your selection even further using sound effects from our stock library with a paid plan.

How to use sound effects

Open file

Open your recording in our Video Editor.

Choose a sound

Click on the timeline and select Tools. Select Sound, then Sound Effect, and choose the perfect audio effect.

Save and share

Save your video and upload it to YouTube or ScreenPal’s hosting platform to share it.

Add sound effects

Enhance any video with sound effects

Education

Keep students engaged with video lessons by inserting lively game or tech sounds when presenting new concepts. Or emphasize content: Add chirping birds and wolf howls to your zoology lesson, or rumbling thunder to a weather lesson.

Business

Turn training videos and product demos into engrossing content with engaging sound effects. Add mouse clicks to emphasize steps or bullet points. Add cheering and clapping for new products or exciting company announcements.

Personal

Liven up your YouTube vlogs, podcasts, and social media posts using audio effects. Set a relaxing mood with nature sounds, add a drum roll before you reveal big news, or add some humor with censor beeps and record scratches.

Create engaging videos you can access anywhere

Add additional stock content

With a paid plan, you can also add stock music tracks, images, and videos directly from the video editor, in addition to sound effects. Our stock library includes a vast selection of high-quality, royalty-free content that you can use in any video as many times as you’d like.

Browse our stock library

Edit multiple audio tracks

Use ScreenPal’s video editor to quickly add and edit multiple music tracks and sound effects to your video. Set the tone with music, add some fun and creativity with sound effects, and insert voice-over narration, in the same recording, from the same place.

Get started with our video editor

Add sound effects and more, for free

Our free video editor is simple to use and provides all you need to easily create high-quality, engaging videos. In addition to sound effects, free features include:

Music (free stock music)

Crop or resize video

Adjust video speed

Zoom in / out on video

Adjust volume, add narration

Cut, copy, paste sections

Stylized text overlays

Annotate with arrows & shapes

Add transitions

Save video files

Upload to content hosting

Add closed captions

Edit videos for free

Upgrade for our full-featured video editor

Our full video creation suite offers advanced screen recording, seamless video editing, unlimited hosting & robust content management. Additional features include:

Video overlay, picture-in-picture

Interactive storyboard editor

Script recording mode

Transfer mobile app videos

Integrated screen recording

Blur any part of your video

Drag-and-drop video builder

Change webcam shape & size

Auto Speech-to-Text captions

Expanded stock music library

Hide your webcam or cursor

Automatically remove silences

Upgrade for advanced video editing

Sound effects: Frequently asked questions

What are sound effects?
What is the best way to add sound effects to my video?

When adding sound effects and background music to your videos, it’s important to find the right balance. Use audio effects to quickly and subtly call attention to important points in your content.

In addition, don’t use too many different sounds in the same video. Instead, ideally stick with about 3 to 5 options, and be sure to use separate sounds for separate actions (transitions, announcements, bullet points, and so forth). Assigning unique sounds to different actions gives your video better structure and keeps your audience engaged by letting them know what’s coming.

Why choose ScreenPal to add sound effects to your videos?

With our free video editor, you get access to multiple music and sound effect tracks to add to your videos. Choose from sound effect categories such as City, Games, Nature, Tech and more.

In addition, ScreenPal offers a wide variety of recording and editing tools to create the perfect videos. Record your screen or webcam, trim your recordings, quickly share your content to sites like Facebook and Twitter, add rich text, arrows, shapes, and images to your videos, crop and resize, and add narration.

When you upgrade to a Premier or Max plan, you get access to even more stock audio files, as well as stock images and videos.
How do I add sound effects to my videos with ScreenPal?

With ScreenPal, you can add and edit multiple audio tracks within the Video Editor, including music and sound effects. Simply open your video in the editor and click on the video timeline where you want to add a sound effect. Next, click Tools, select Sound, and then click Sound Effect.

You can browse our music library and sound effect library by category and choose the perfect audio clip to insert. When you’re finished, upload to the ScreenPal hosting platform for easy sharing, quickly save the video to your computer, or share it to sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.